I am certain in my heart that the most reasonable use case is to replace the cursor with a detailed gauntlet cursor or severed hand as in Warcraft to let the us

I am certain in my heart that the most reasonable use case is to replace the cursor with a detailed gauntlet cursor or severed hand as in Warcraft to let the user know whether they are The Alliance or Horde. Kidding, of course. But damn I loved that sort of thing back when. Especially being able to do it with weird plugins as a fledgling "webmaster".